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An Online Resource Library on Domestic & Sexual Violence
Whether we are assessing risks, advocating for an individual, making policies, or evaluating programs, thinking critically and broadly about women’s safety undoubtedly enhances the effectiveness of our work on behalf of battered women.
Whether visible to outside observers or not, social risks are real and significant to the individual battered woman.
Excerpt: This paper is an invitation to enter into a new way of thinking about violence and about how it is addressed. It may not be an easy invitation to accept: we have grown accustomed to working in certain ways; changing those ways can be difficult, but change we must if we are ever to make any headway in reducing violence.
This article offers information to MST survivors with the intent of providing them with resources to assist them in their recovery. It was also written for partners, friends, or family members of MST survivors.
This resource provides a quick overview of different types of child abuse, including sexual abuse, physical abuse, emotional abuse and neglect. It also includes a brief overview of the CDCÍs approach to prevention.
Through this research, a new framework for understanding how to improve the overall physical and mental health has been developed. Many service providers and advocacy centers identify these findings as instrumental in promoting primary prevention of violence to funders and collaborative partners.
This guide, designed for counselors and advocates, explores the complex connections between substance abuse and addiction and sexual violence. It provides information on understanding addictions and treatment options, a literature review of research on the topic, and a section of special considerations for rape crisis centers. This guide addresses both the intervention and prevention responses that may be useful in addressing and exploring this topic.
This report includes findings on effectiveness of supervision and increased efforts to monitor sex offenders using GPS technology.
This paper provides an overview of a tool which measures effectiveness and ways to improve existing juvenile justice programs. The tool offers options for a full scope of programming to more efficiently and appropriately meet the individual needs of youth based on their level of risk to reoffend. Providing a broader range of appropriate program helps to meet the needs of youth ensure safety in their communities in the future.
The tool offers options for a full scope of programming to more efficiently and appropriately meet the individual needs of youth based on their level of risk to reoffend. Providing a broader range of appropriate program helps to meet the needs of youth ensure safety in their communities in the future.
Through this technical report, the researchers provide information on their findings evaluating the effectiveness of sex offender registry and notification policies for reducing sexual violence against women. The report suggested that these policies deterred some first time sex offenses, but had no impact on recidivism. The research was conducted in and reflects outcomes in South Carolina.
Key Findings:
Several publications came out of these recommendations, including:
This information packet from the California Coalition Against Sexual Assault discusses various issues related to sexual violence within immigrant communities. It offers general information on migration to the United States, some pertinent issues to the dynamics of sexual assault and immigration issues, various intervention strategies, and effective prevention strategies within immigrant and refugee communities. This packet offers updated legal information, which is crucial to appropriately responding to and meeting the needs of individuals who belong to immigrant and migrant communities.
This plan was developed as a means of achieving the vision of a culture that supports healthy, respectful relationships through primary prevention efforts and zero tolerance of sexual violence in Arizona communities.
Excerpt from the Executive Summary: It is only in the last 30 years that society has begun to fully recognize child sexual abuse as the devastating problem that it is, to portray the trauma of sexual abuse in the media, and toseek ways to prevent and eliminate sexual violence. As communities have begun to demand a response to sexual abuse, legislators have passed an increasing number of policies directed at the people who sexually abuse. In 2007 and 2008 alone, more than 1500 sex offender-related bills were proposed in state legislatures and over 275 new laws were enacted.
This brief research compendium provides a summary of scholarly work on sexual violence topics published in 2009.
* See Women and War, where journalists, experts, female soldiers and veterans share their experiences and discuss issues including women in combat, sexual assault in the military and inadequate benefits for female veterans.
Although homelessness plagues all veterans, the causes and consequences of having no home are different for women veterans. Young female veterans, including many with children, are increasingly joining the homeless population. Outreach that specifically targets female veterans is needed in order to ensure that these women receive the help they need.
This testimony particularly emphasizes the societal and institutional responses to survivors of military sexual trauma (MST) that continue to place women at greater risk for further violence and isolation. This publication also sheds light on the repercussions of the "Don't ask, don't tell" policy on service women and men.
This article describes participants of a domestic violence program, the program design, and the completers and non-completers of the program. The article examines the correlation between PTSD, DV and history of violence in the family of origin.
Domestic violence rates among veterans with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) are higher than those of the general population. Individuals who have been diagnosed with PTSD who seek couples therapy with their partners constitute an understudied population. The following article explores some of these issues based on a study.
Through training and outreach, the Association encourages collaboration within the network of TBI service providers, veterans' organizations, and the community. This page also includes a film and other useful resources on this topic. This webpage is a resource for providers and families as they seek to understand the symptoms of, and treatment for, TBI.
This resource highlights those interventions that are specific to this population.
This article offers tips to determine when domestic violence is occurring in cases in which the perpetrator is a war veteran suffering from PTSD and/or TBI. Specific guidelines are provided to make such determination while avoiding justifications based on the perpetrator's acquired disability.
This link provides an overview of DoD's domestic abuse policy including information on restricted and unrestricted reporting.
